The Profile Cookbook¶
A good profile is not "clean these rooms."
A good profile is "handle this recurring moment."
The point of this whole system is to let you decide once and never carry it again. You think a routine through carefully one time, save it as a profile, and from then on the remembering lives in the vacuum, not your head.
This page isn't about which buttons to press — that's Profiles. It's about how to turn a moment in your life into a routine the vacuum runs for you.
The idea: the vacuum works around your life¶
Most robot scheduling is backwards — you bend your day around when the machine runs. A profile flips it. Because a profile can wait, it can slot cleaning into the gaps of a real moment: after the meal, once the dog's dry, when you're already asleep.
The wait is the whole trick. The wait is where the humanity lives. A timer fires at a time; only a wait keyed to a person can say "after they've had enough of the evening" or "once you're actually under." Everything below is just learning to see those moments.
Three knobs¶
Every profile is you turning three knobs around a moment:
- Where — the rooms, in order. Not a checklist — a path. Trace where the mess (or the person, or the pet) actually goes.
- When — the wait. Time it to a transition, not a clock for its own sake: the meal ending, the dog drying, you falling asleep, the rain passing.
- How — the mode and water. Match the kind of mess: mop a wet trail, vacuum dry fur or dust, go low water for damp drips so you're not adding more.
You build the steps in the Rooms view and save the sequence — the mechanics are all in Profiles. This page is only about what to put in them.
Worked examples¶
These are mine — my rooms, my house, my dog. Copy the thinking, not the rooms; yours will look nothing like mine, and that's exactly the point.
Dinner — the wait is the event¶
Vacuum the kitchen and dining room → wait 60 min → vacuum-and-mop the same rooms. Clean before I cook, and then the wait simply is dinner, and the mop cleans up after we eat. One decision covers the whole meal.
Wash Dog — the rooms trace the path¶
Wait 45 min while I'm out drying the dog → vacuum-and-mop the exit route, bathroom → hallway → living → dining (that leg is water, so it needs the mop) → wait 60 min while the dog finishes drying, shakes off, and wanders → clean the return route back through the living areas into the bedrooms, for the muddy paws and shed fur. The room order is the dog's actual path through the house.
Post-visitor — the run is the message¶
When a guest arrives I flip a switch, and five hours later the vacuum heads out. It tidies up after them, sure — but the real job is the gentle, deniable signal that the evening's winding down, the thing you'd rather not say out loud. The dirt is the cover story.
Bedtime — the wait protects your sleep¶
Kick it off at bedtime → wait 2 hours → clean the common areas. The wait isn't for the floor, it's for you — long enough that you're asleep before the noise starts, so the robot never wakes anyone.
Rain / Wind — the mode diagnoses the cause¶
When the weather turns, the profile answers what it does to the house. Rain brings in leaves and drips → a low-water clean, because the floor's already damp and high water would only add to it. Wind, out in the country, blows in dry field dust → a plain vacuum, no water at all. Same rooms, different how, because the cause is different.
Find your own moments¶
You won't reuse my profiles — you'll reuse the questions:
- What in your home has a before / during / after? A meal, a bath, guests, the workday, the school run.
- What path does the mess take? Follow it room by room — that's your where, and its order.
- What are you waiting for — a person, a pet, the weather, sleep? That's your when.
- What kind of mess is it — wet, dry, damp? That's your how.
Answer those once, per moment, and you've built something you'll use for years without thinking about it again. That's the whole trade: think hard for five minutes, reuse it for as long as it holds true.
Triggering it — boring, on purpose¶
How a profile starts is deliberately dull, because it's as personal as the profile itself. Wire it to whatever you already have:
- On demand — tick Expose as Home Assistant Button and the profile becomes a button entity; or drop the Profile card on a dashboard; or say it to a voice assistant. A wall switch whose only job is "send the vacuum out" works just as well.
- On a clock — a time or calendar automation calling
eufy_vacuum.start_run_profile(see Automation examples). - On a condition — presence, a scene, a weather entity — any sensor or trigger you like, calling that same service.
And because the wait absorbs the slack, the trigger can be coarse: you don't have to catch the exact moment, just nudge it in the right neighbourhood and let the profile carry the rest.